Detailed images of the shallow Alpine Fault Zone, New Zealand, determined from narrow-azimuth 3D seismic reflection data

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kaiser, A E ^a,b   Horstmeyer, H ^a   Green, A G ^a   Campbell, F M ^a   Langridge, R M ^b   McClymont, A F ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COST ENGINEERING; DATA HANDLING; NOISE ABATEMENT; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

AZIMUTH ACQUISITION; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; PROCESSING STRATEGIES; SUPERIOR RESOLUTION; SURFACE-CONSISTENT DECONVOLUTION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DECONVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; DIP-SLIP FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SLIP RATE; TRANSPRESSION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84857344075     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3515920     Document Type: Article

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